Bluesky · Hashtag

#ActuallyAutistic

564
posts · 30d
140
users
19
posts / day
4.0
posts / user
-13% vs last week

#ActuallyAutistic is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 140 people shared 564 posts with it — around 19 a day. Activity is down 13% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 13 with 28 posts.

#ActuallyAutistic posts per day (last 30 days)

Posts with #ActuallyAutistic

Eric Michael Garcia
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
I get the impulse for autistic people to want to respond by saying that they DID go to college or play baseball or date and work. But that still plays into ableist narratives. Even if an #ActuallyAutistic person does none of these, they still have worth.

RFK Jr: Kids with autism will never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date.

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Eric Michael Garcia
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
1 day ago
This week marks 5 years since I published my first book We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation. It wanted to shift how people talked about #Autism and #ActuallyAutistic people from treating them like a problem to humans who deserve dignity www.harpercollins.com/pro….
We're Not Broken

www.harpercollins.com

We're Not Broken

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...

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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel
@neurodivergentrebel.substack.com
over 1 year ago
I shouldn’t have to say this in 2025 but vaccines do not “cause Autism” #ActuallyAutistic
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Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Autism isn’t all boys with special interests in trains or tech. Autistic special interests can include feminine-coded subjects like psychology (figuring out people and how better to understand and fit in among them) and makeup (so much tactile and visual stimming is possible!). #ActuallyAutistic
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Jeffrey B (@dadnails)
@dadnails.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Autism isn’t caused by vaccines. It isn’t “caused” at all. It just is. Fact: Autistic people aren’t broken. They’re not lost. They don’t need to be “recovered”—they need to be respected. #ActuallyAutistic voices matter.
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Eric Michael Garcia
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Should add that while RFK Jr. is talking about how autism destroys families, the Trump administration sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the father of an #ActuallyAutistic child to El Salvador and says without evidence that he's a member of MS-13.
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Eric Michael Garcia
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
New from me: As RFK Jr. fearmongers about autism being an "epidemic," the Department of Health and Human Services terminated a grant that would have researched how to reduce suicide among LGBTQ+ #ActuallyAutistic people. via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/new….
RFK Jr. talks about an ‘autism epidemic.’ HHS  cut money to reduce suicide in autism

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RFK Jr. talks about an ‘autism epidemic.’ HHS cut money to reduce suicide in autism

Laura Graham Holmes received a grant to find interventions to reduce suicide among autistic people. Now that grant has been cut

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Eric Michael Garcia
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
11 months ago
For no particular reason whatsoever, I wrote a whole book about why society should stop trying to cure #ActuallyAutistic people and instead focus more on creating a better world and society for them. You can buy it here. www.harpercollins.com/pro….
We're Not Broken

www.harpercollins.com

We're Not Broken

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...

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Eric Michael Garcia
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
I’ve gained more than 1,000 followers in the past few days. So hello. My name is Eric. I’m Washington Bureau chief @theindependent.bsky.social/co-author our politics newsletter. I wrote one book about autism and am #ActuallyAutistic. I am writing a second about autism and masculinity.
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